* (disambiguation) explained

is an asterisk, a typographical symbol or glyph.

Art, entertainment, and media

*, a symbol for not out in cricket
*, a symbol identifying a genetic lineage as a paragroup of a specified haplogroup
Star (game theory), the value given to the game where both players have only the option of moving to the zero game
*, in linguistics, a symbol that prefixes a word or phrase that, in historical linguistics, is a reconstructed form for which no actual examples have been found
- Also a hypothetical, deviant, or ungrammatical form
*, a symbol in several astronomical notation nomenclatures for abbreviating star
- *, the symbol is used to refer a reader to a footnote *, the symbol is used to refer a reader to an endnote
*, the beginning of a vertical service code in telephony
*, the wildcard character in a computer terminal window or terminal or computer programming, representation of any word, words or characters.
- (CONFIG.SYS directive)